Message Viewer

STK uses the Message Viewer window to display error messages, warning messages, and informational messages. To display the Message Viewer, click the Message Viewer icon in the Status bar or select Message Viewer from the View menu. Message Viewer icons and descriptions follow:

Icon Description
No New Messages No new messages in the Message Viewer.
Error Message New error message in the Message Viewer.
Info Message New informational message in the Message Viewer.
Warning Message New warning message in the Message Viewer.
Unknown Message New message of unknown type in the Message Viewer.

You can display only one Message Viewer window at a time.

Working with Messages in the Message Viewer

The message viewer has many features to make it easier for you to work with the messages. You can display some or all of the messages, sort them, delete them, and copy them to a clipboard for future use.

You can use the Message Viewer to:

Displaying All or a Subset of Messages

Use the tabs at the bottom of the message viewer to view all messages, or to view only warnings, information messages, or errors.

Resizing Columns

Click and drag the right border to resize the columns in the message viewer.

If you resize the column too small and it disappears, do the following to make it reappear:

  1. Place the cursor at the spot where the hidden column used to be in the content area until you see the two vertical parallel bars cursor.

    2. To expand a hidden column, the cursor must be in the content area.

  2. Click and drag the cursor to the right.

Sorting Messages

You can sort messages by ascending or descending order on the basis of any column in the Message Viewer. Double-click the heading The direction that the aircraft is pointing. of the desired column once to sort the messages into ascending order with reference to that column; repeat this procedure to sort the messages into descending order. The default is ascending on the Date/Time column.

Displaying Message Numbers

Messages are numbered sequentially as they appear in the Message Viewer. To display message numbers, click and drag the leftmost border of the message viewer completely to the right

Displaying Message Details

To make it easier to read a message, especially a lengthy one, double-click the message or right-click in the Message Viewer window and select Details to display a Details window that gives the date, time and type of the message, as well as its text.

Use the up and down arrows to display the details for previous and next messages.

Displaying the Log File Path

To display the log file path, right-click in the Message Viewer window and select Show Log Path.

The message viewer currently stores its information in a Comma Separated Values (csv) file in the directory specified by the registry value for the LogPath. If this value is not set, e.g. the first time you run STK, the file will be written to the temp directory. Each time you run STK, a new csv file is created. The file is deleted when you exit STK.

Copying Messages

To copy messages, select one or more messages, press Ctrl+C, and then use Ctrl+V to paste the messages into another document. To select all messages simultaneously, right-click in the message viewer and select Select All.

Clearing Messages

To clear a message that you no longer need, select it and press Delete, or right-click the message and select Clear This Message, Clear Selection, Clear this Tab, or Clear all Tabs from the pop-up menu.

Clear this Tab temporarily deletes the messages from the selected tab. To restore the messages, close and reopen the Message Viewer.

Clear all Tabs permanently deletes all messages in the Message Viewer.

Printing Messages

If the Message Viewer is the active window, you can print its entire contents or the current selection by pressing Ctrl + P or selecting Print from the File menu.

Searching for a Specific Message

To search for messages in the Message Viewer, click anywhere in the Message Viewer window and select Find from the Edit menu.